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Books like The Advent Trilogy: 9 series to read next

The Advent Trilogy is fantasy, set in british isles and contemporary, eerie in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Advent Trilogy is 3 books, 2012–2015.

“Warded from earth, air, water, fire, spirits, thought and sight.”
from the catalogue description of Advent

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Alderley
The Dark Is Rising
Mythago Wood
His Dark Materials
Bod Owens
Narnia
Lewis Barnavelt
Coraline
Five Children Universe

AlderleySeries

seriesAlan Garner4 books1960

Mythic fantasy.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

seriesSusan Cooper5 books1965

Mythic fantasy, adventurous in tone.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

Mythago WoodSeries

seriesRobert Holdstock7 books1984

Mythic fantasy.

“The first novel follows Stephen Huxley investigating his family's obsession with the wood after his father's death; Holdstock continued the cycle across further novels and stories exploring different characters and eras.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Mythago Wood →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Bod OwensSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell3 books2007

Dark fantasy, bittersweet in tone, about found family.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Witch's Headstone →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Lewis BarnaveltSeries

seriesBrad Strickland & John Bellairs12 books1973

“Lewis Barnavelt is a lonely orphan who moves in with his uncle Jonathan, an amateur wizard, in a rambling old house that turns out to hide a doomsday clock built into its walls by a previous, malevolent owner.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The House with a Clock in Its Walls →

CoralineSeries

seriesNeil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell2 books2002

Horror, tense in tone, set in parallel universe.

“The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Coraline →

Five Children UniverseSeries

seriesE. Nesbit, Helen Cresswell & Kate Saunders27 books1902

Set in early 20th century.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Return of the Psammead →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after The Advent Trilogy?: Alderley — the closest match to The Advent Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Advent Trilogy?: Advent. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Advent Trilogy.
How big is The Advent Trilogy?: The Advent Trilogy is 3 books, 2012–2015.

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